Men’s Fashion

Few items of menswear come packaged with as much attitude, heritage or unfiltered masculinity as a leather jacket. Synonymous with punks and pilots, motorcycles and Marlon Brando, the leather jacket is high-testosterone menswear, but it’s also a surprisingly versatile classic. No well-edited wardrobe is complete without one. Men have been wearing hides and skins since

Flannel shirts have had something of an image problem in recent times and as per usual, it’s the hipsters’ fault. For a few years, this classic type of shirt couldn’t escape the connotations of the artisan coffee-drinking lumbersexuals who wore them everywhere they went. Fortunately, they’re being re-evaluated again, because this garment is, without doubt,

Black suits get a bad rep. For many they’re an introduction to tailoring, a set of sartorial training wheels which got you through graduation, early job interviews and distant cousins’ second weddings. Almost every man has this type of suit but familiarity needn’t equal boring, an adjective often wrongly used to describe the black suit.

There’s a famous quote, attributed variously to Dennis Hopper, George Harrison, and Robin Williams: “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there.” When it comes to menswear, however, it seems that the legacy of the 1960s is hard to forget. The styles that came to prominence in that storied decade, from mod-inspired sharp tailoring to

Magicians. Fred Durst. Guys who like energy drinks, 4×4 pickup trucks and wearing their baseball cap back to front. Let’s face it, the list of notable goatee proponents doesn’t exactly read like a who’s who of people to take your grooming cues from. This precisely-groomed beard style have long been the subject of ridicule, but

Chinos, joggers and cargo pants have all made their respective plays for pride of place in our rotations, but jeans are still the go-to, go-anywhere coverings for most men’s getaway sticks. For all but the most formal of offices and life events, denim is a no-brainer. You can’t go wrong. Can you? Oh, you can.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, modern man’s outerwear options have expanded well beyond the traditional sartorial suspects in recent years. Where once there were macs, denim and leather jackets at our disposal, we now have windbreakers constructed from cutting-edge technical fabrics and worker jackets of every kind. But one of the strongest transitional

Streetwear is so ubiquitous that its name doesn’t really do it justice these days. It’s no longer just for skaters oblivious to fashion. Nor is it a cooler-than-cool subculture for people who wear everything first. Right now, streetwear is a certified menswear phenomenon, mainstream fashion and haute couture, price-tag depend. For proof this statement isn’t

When it comes to clothing, brown’s name is mud. Brown shoes, fine. A belt, sure. But pretty much anything else in the colour has traditionally been shunned as unwelcome and unflattering. Brown is ugly, they say. It conjures up images of everything regrettable about 1970s style. That hasn’t stopped the world’s best designers from splashing

They’re a team with an 87 per cent record and have a win against every side they’ve ever come across – the only international men’s team across all sports to have one. Sometimes you wonder if the New Zealand rugby team, better known as the All Blacks even know how to lose. Famed for their

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In the bleak midwinter, as the carol doesn’t put it, you need knitwear. Today, there is a number of high-tech thermo-regulating fabrics that will keep you warm with greater efficiency, but, it must be said, not with the same style. Since knitting is one of the oldest means of making clothes, it’s natural that it

The transition from summer into the colder months brings with it many unpleasant changes: prolonged darkness, frigid temperatures and a woeful lack of ice cream vans, to name a few. However, for all of autumn/winter’s glaring faults, it does boast one redeeming feature. It equips you with a bombproof excuse to treat yourself to some

Been shoe-horning your way into skinny-fit trousers for years? Scott Fraser Simpson has something to say about that. The London-based designer has become well-known for his roomy cuts and isn’t afraid to shout about their numerous benefits. He started his brand, Scott Fraser Collection, in 2013, and while it didn’t begin as a trouser brand,

You’ll have noticed, we hope, that recently things have soured for the makers of throwaway fashion. Their CEOs have been hauled in front of government to explain how they make millions, while their wares go from warehouse to Instagram to landfill within a couple of weeks. Fortunately, shoppers are finally waking up to their own

Whether what’s in your wardrobe lives and dies by what’s happening at Fashion Week, or, quite frankly, you couldn’t care less, the truth is that trends born on the catwalk will trickle down to inform your style. Whether you like it or not. And if fashion powerhouses like Italian label Valentino and luxury streetwear favourite

A way to make a statement without being a loudmouth? Check. A way to add impetus to an autumn/winter outfit without getting ahead of yourself? Check. The trouser that’s going to make all the difference this season? Check. Are we seeing a pattern here? Yes they can be bold and yes they may not be

Few things in the male wardrobe are likely to link reigning monarchs and rockstars. Nonetheless, attracting wearers as diverse as this has been one of the Chelsea boot’s most notable achievements. Harking back to the 1850s, ankle boots (as they were simply known then) were invented by Queen Victoria’s shoemaker, J. Sparkes-Hall, as an alternative

If HBO’s wildly popular medieval fantasy epic was set anywhere in the northern hemisphere, it’s likely that Game of Thrones’ most commonly cited catchphrase would be more like: “Winter is coming. No, wait, it’s warm again. Never mind.” While that may not be the case, the whole process of moving from one season to the

Paris, New York, London and Milan: the Big Four when it comes to fashion. For years, these cities have been considered the definitive capitals of couture. An exclusive, omnipotent foursome by which the style preferences of the planet are dictated on a bi-annual basis. As a collective, and on their own, these hotspots may wield

There are plenty of minimum age limits (drinking, gambling, Quentin Tarantino movies), but bar driving, nowhere near enough maximum ones. It’s alarming, given that letting septuagenarians loose on streetwear can result in an equally horrific car crash of the mutton-dressed-as-lamb variety. Which is why FashionBeans has decided to impose some suggested restrictions on key menswear

It’s not hard to remember a time when acids were confined to chemistry class or the weapon of choice for Bond villains. Nasty, dangerous liquids that you wouldn’t want anywhere near you, let alone on your face. Fast forward a few years, and chemical exfoliants containing just that have gone mainstream, stepping out of medical

You probably don’t need it pointing out that we live in strange and confusing times. At the exact same moment the remains of the knuckle-dragging, sex-pest attitudes of the seventies are (thankfully) public enemy number one, in the menswear world if it’s got a whiff of decade, it’s hot property. For most, there is nothing

What do a 60-year-old birdwatcher and that cool streetwear guy you follow on Instagram have in common? Chances are, not a great deal. Until you begin to examine their choice of technical outerwear, that is. The answer is a Gore-Tex jacket. It’s a name you’ve no doubt seen stitched into the kind of gear worn